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A Kiss of Thorns and Roses

Chapter 1- “The Story begins"

Chapter 1- “The Story begins"

Jul 14, 2025

 

Two thousand years ago, something marked the world, creating what would later be known as Year Zero. Before that year, only a single continent rose beneath the skies: Calemor. An ancient land, where the wind whispered peace and the rivers flowed in harmony. In that unified land, two species — forgotten by many, feared by others — maintained the fragile balance between the forces that governed the world.
But even the tides of peace cannot resist the call of the unknown. No one knows for certain how it began. Some whisper it was out of greed. Others say it was all driven by the pursuit of a power beyond immortal comprehension. What everyone remembers — or pretends to forget — is that it was then the world changed.
 For one thousand nine hundred and sixty-three years, the flames of war consumed Calemor. An ancestral war, a nameless conflict that would become known only as The Elder War. A war that nearly wiped the very continent and all that breathed upon it from existence.
Then, in the year 1964 (after the beginning of The Elder War), something... happened. An event shrouded in silence and fear. A light in the south. A soundless scream. A wave of destruction that swept across entire lands, extinguishing everything in its path — men, mountains, oceans.

And when the echo of horror ceased, a wall of crystal and fire rose from the abyss. Impossible to climb, to cross, to break. Dividing Calemor in two, as if the planet itself wished to forget its own existence.
The war ended. But peace... never truly came.
Fearing that the cycle would begin again, the survivors fragmented the continent. Where once stood two great Kingdoms, multiple smaller domains emerged. Each species, each people, drew their borders, raised their flags, and chose their rulers.
Centuries passed. The scars of war fell asleep beneath the dust of millennia, becoming legends told under moonlight, whispered by elders to children who no longer knew how to fear. For centuries, the wall continued to burn and glisten, day and night reminding all who saw it on the horizon that the legends were real.
But there are those who remember.
Those who feel the ancient vibration in the earth.
Those who swear that the primordial hatred which began the massacre was never sealed. That if one day — by the will of the gods or the error of men — the wall were to fall... nothing would remain but ashes.

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Two thousand years ago, something shattered the world.
A single continent, Calemor, once stood in harmony. Rivers flowed peacefully. The wind carried songs of unity. Two ancient species held the balance between creation and destruction.
Then came the fall.
No one knows how it started. Some say it was greed. Others speak of a forbidden power beyond mortal reach. But what everyone remembers — or pretends to forget — is that the moment it began, everything changed.
The Elder War lasted 1,963 years. Entire generations lived and died beneath skies of ash. The land bled. The balance was lost.
And then… a wall rose from the abyss.
A barrier of crystal and fire, impossible to cross. It split Calemor in two — as if the world itself wanted to forget what it had become.
The war stopped. But peace never truly came.
Fearful of history repeating, the survivors divided the land. Kingdoms became fragments. Lines were drawn. Rulers were chosen. Flags replaced memory.
Centuries passed. The wall still burns at the edge of the horizon — a reminder that the legends were real.
Most have forgotten.
But some still feel it.
The ancient tremor beneath the earth. The whisper in the stone.
And they know:
If the wall ever falls… only ashes will remain.
This is where the story begins.

#worldmap #Fantasy #magic

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n a world that once burned in black and white flames, but now rests beneath the delicate veil of an illusory peace, the echoes of an ancient evil still whisper between crystal walls and fragmented kingdoms. Millennia ago, the land was nearly consumed by a dark force — forgotten by many, but never truly extinguished.

At the heart of the Kingdom of Angels, in the celestial city of Celta, lives Angelico Rex — a prince with snow-white wings and sapphire-blue eyes marked by scars no one can see. Heir to a divine throne, yet prisoner of a past no one must ever uncover, he carries within him a secret powerful enough to bring even the heavens crashing down.

On the far edge of light, amidst shadows and broken promises, emerges Daemon — a demonic assassin shaped by pain, resentment, and the consequences... of choices that were never his to make. Forged in blood and silent solitude, he was bound to commands that left his soul in ruins.

When the paths of these two fated beings collide at a crossroads of prophecy, repressed memories, and forbidden truths, both will come to realize that survival — of the world and of themselves — may depend not on strength, but on the ability to trust… and perhaps something more.

Two worlds, divided by a bottomless abyss. Two souls, scarred in ways the eye cannot see and only the heart can feel. An impossible mission — and a forbidden love?

Together, they must uncover what lies beneath the masks destiny forced them to wear… or be lost trying — and face the rebirth of a darkness that was never truly defeated.

When light and shadow meet… something is born that not even the gods can control.

But will they be able to face everything and everyone — even if it means facing themselves?
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